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Think about that for a moment. “Turn it back off and turn it back on,” is a time-honored diagnostic tool for a reason. Errors that come back again aren’t random errors, in many cases. And while four missiles still aren’t dozens, they aren’t a single launch, either. If Petrov waited for radar confirmation, the missiles would be just minutes away from their targets. The entire Soviet nuclear doctrine furthermore rested on the idea that the
computers are infallible and must be obeyed.
There was no room in the official Soviet training manual for Petrov to do what he did next. The manual said that his overriding responsibility was to pick up the phone and inform his superiors that a launch had occurred. The computer system was signaling the highest level of probability that a launch had actually taken place.

“The siren howled, but I just sat there for a few seconds, staring at the big, back-lit, red screen with the word ‘launch’ on it,” Petrov
told the BBC
in 2013. “A minute later the siren went off again. The second missile was launched. Then the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. Computers changed their alerts from ‘launch’ to ‘missile strike’.”

“There was no rule about how long we were allowed to think before we reported a strike,” he continued. “But we knew that every second of procrastination took away valuable time; that the Soviet Union’s military and political leadership needed to be informed without delay.

“All I had to do was to reach for the phone; to raise the direct line to our top commanders – but I couldn’t move,” Petrov had said. “I felt like I was sitting on a hot frying pan.”

So what did Petrov do? He picked up the phone and called in a system malfunction — a malfunction he wasn’t honestly sure existed, even at the time. In the long run, it turned out the error was caused by a rare alignment issue between the satellites in question and the sun’s reflection on high-altitude clouds. The entire incident was hushed up until after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Next week marks the 34th anniversary of the day when the world’s survival all hung on the actions of a single man. While it’s impossible to know if Yuri Andropov would have ordered a launch on Petrov’s report, there’s every chance he would’ve. Multiple prominent Soviet scientists had praised the early warning satellite system as foolproof. Given these developments, we ran a very real risk of reading about these events on fragmented terminal entries several hundred years from now, once radiation levels went down and the Capital Wasteland was able to mount an expedition to Russia to…

Sorry. Got a little Fallout crossed in there.

Jokes aside, September 26, 1983 may have been the closest the world ever came to a no-holds-barred nuclear war. There is little doubt about what the American response to a genuine Soviet launch would have been. Thanks to Stanislav Petrov, it didn’t happen.